There was not a hamlet, house or wigwam to indicate that Christian or savage inhabited the land.
Blanche marked the troubled look on his face and asked: "Do you know where we are ?" "No." The shore was wild and rocky, and on their right it was covered with a dense growth of tropical trees.

Farther inland rose two towering mountains.

The beach directly before them was low and receding.

A long, level plain, covered with a dense growth of coarse sea-grass, was between them and the hills, which were covered with palms, maguey and other tropical trees.
John feared that they had been wrecked on the coast of some of the Spanish possessions and would be made captives and perhaps slaves by the half-civilized colonists.
They could not live long on the wreck, and he began to look about the deck for some means of going ashore.

The pinnace which had been stowed away between decks was an almost complete wreck.